Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Who is a Tapasvi ?
tapasvi -- a great ascetic
tapasvi -- great sage
tapasvi -- persons who undergo severe penances
MG 4: Learning Tapasya, Self-Control - What is tapasya? What is austerity? The first principle of austerity is brahmacarya, restricted sex life. The real meaning of brahmacarya is complete celibacy, and according to Vedic culture in the beginning of life one should strictly follow the regulations of brahmacarya. When he is grown up, the brahmacari can marry and become grhastha, and as a grhastha he can have sex, but in the brahmacarya life strict celibacy is the rule. In the present age people have become degraded for want of tapasya because they are not taught how to execute tapasvi life. Criticism for its own sake will not do; one must be effectively trained in the life of tapasya.
SB 4.22.15 - " The materialistic person can also be called a tapasvi, which means someone who is always suffering from material pains.
SB 8.13.28 - Among the sages will be Tapomurti, Tapasvi and Agnidhraka.
NoI: verse 1 - In his Anuvrtti explanation of Upadesamrta, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes that our material identification creates three kinds of urges -- the urge to speak, the urge or demands of the mind and the demands of the body. When a living entity falls victim to these three types of urges, his life becomes inauspicious. One who practices resisting these demands or urges is called tapasvi, or one who practices austerities. By such tapasya one can overcome victimization by the material energy, the external potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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